Great Lakes, Ill. 1945. Two panoramic photographs, 10 x 19.25 and 8 x 18.25 inches. Minor wear at corners; lower left corner of larger image partially stripped. Minor toning and dust soiling. A striking set of two panoramic photographs that comprise official portraits of African-American Naval Company 771 at the..... More
[Amchitka & Anchorage, Ak. 1944]. 111 original photographs, measuring from 2.5 x 3.5 to 3.5 x 5 inches. Oblong folio album, string-tied; leatherette boards, front embossed and color stamped. Manuscript captions on album leaves; photos in corner mounts. A bit of soiling and wear to album leaves, fading to some..... More
Pensacola: Jan. 20, 1847. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Previously folded. Light staining and tanning. In a neat, legible hand. A.S. Baldwin was a young Lieutenant who served through the entirety of the United States Exploring Expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes on three ships of the squadron. Early in..... More
Camp G.W.F. Wood, Texas: Oct. 18, 1857. [3]pp. On a bifolium. Previously folded. Bottom half of second leaf and upper corners torn away, with no loss of text. In this lively letter, William Beggs writes from Camp Wood to an enlisted friend at Fort Duncan, J.A. Richards, about the military..... More
San Antonio: [ca. 1916]. Ten original photographs, plus two real photo postcards. Most 3 x 5 inches, one smaller. Occasional, very minor wear. Images generally crisp and clean. A collection of ten photographs that depict activities of F Troop of the 13th U.S. Cavalry Regiment on the border with Mexico..... More
Los Angeles: Nov. 16, 1887. [3]pp., on a single folded sheet. Soft center horizontal crease, minor toning. A scarce field order printed in Los Angeles, concerning the court martial of a Buffalo Soldier for his alleged attack of a white woman at Fort Thomas in the Arizona Territory. Private Frank..... More
Filadelfia: Imprenta de Guillermo Stavely, 1830. 59pp. Stitched as issued. Some light soiling and foxing. On the 16th of May 1826, Don Pablo Obregón, envoy to the United States on behalf of the Republic of Mexico, signed a contract with Samuel Chew for the construction and outfitting of a war..... More
Memphis: Memphis Bulletin, 1863. Small broadside, 8 x 4.5 inches. Previously folded. Short separation along top fold. Light tanning and foxing. An unrecorded Civil War song sheet that celebrates the accomplishments of the 11th Missouri Volunteers and several other regiments in the XVI Corps of the U.S. Army of the..... More
March 18, 1862. [6]pp. Old mailing folds, minor foxing. An information-packed letter from Eluctius William Treadwell Sr. (circa 1836-1865), who served in the 19th Alabama Infantry, writing from the Army of Mississippi's large encampment at Corinth, describing the results of three nearby battles, including a notable skirmish in Arkansas, and..... More
[Syracuse? ca. 1910]. [2],165 leaves plus six illustrations. Typescript. Quarto. Original green buckram, spine gilt. Minor wear to binding. Negligible soiling to contents, scattered manuscript corrections and notations to text. Unpublished novel by former Union officer and author Captain George K. Collins. Collins (1837-1931) was raised in Syracuse, where he..... More
Springfield, Oh. Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1898. 121pp. Folio. Original orange printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling, spine chipped with some glue repair. Ink ownership inscription at top of front cover. Minor internal soiling, several leaves with tape repairs at edges. Extensively illustrated souvenir publication of the Spanish-American War. Images..... More
Mexico City: April 20, 1848. [2]pp., plus docketing, on a quarto bifolium. Previously folded. Some separation along fold lines. Four-inch tear from opening, repaired with tape. Light tanning and a couple of fox marks. In a neat, legible script. Writing on April 20, 1848, to his cousin Edward Moulton in..... More
[Various locations, including California, Hawaii, and the Philippines. 1917-1942]. [85]pp., mostly folio sheets. Some light wear, a few sheets torn with no loss. Some with manuscript signatures or small notations. Archive of papers relating to the military career of Colonel Alva F. Englehart, spanning two World Wars and the entirety..... More
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[Vallejo, Ca.]: 1922-1933. [210] leaves plus [9] loose folio sheets and a silver-gelatin photograph. Original limp black leather, three-ring binding. Light wear to covers, spine ends heavily worn with some loss. Contemporary ownership inscriptions inside front cover. Some leaves loose, light wear at edges, light to moderate soiling throughout. Working..... More
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[Emmett, Id. ca. 1920]. Broadside poster, 22.5 x 33.5 inches. Printed in blue and red on tan paper. Old folds. Light chipping and wear, minor loss at some corner folds. Pencil notations on verso. Fabulous broadside poster advertising the Fourth of July celebrations at Emmett, Idaho, a tiny town located..... More
Topeka: W.Y. Morgan, 1902. 154pp. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt. Corners and spine ends lightly worn. Minor toning to text. “A reprint of Appendix 4 to the Adjutant General’s Thirteenth Biennial Report.”. More
[Junction City: 1899]. [48]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light dust soiling and occasional foxing. A very scarce Kansas promotional dating to the end of the 19th century, comprising both a view book of Fort Riley and advertising space for businesses in neighboring Junction City. The booklet contains twenty-six photographic views..... More
Philadelphia: A. Sherman, 1824. 12mo. 152pp. plus frontispiece portrait. Original blue boards, printed paper label. Front cover detached, spine heavily chipped, rear cover nearly detached. Contemporary ownership inscription on flyleaf. Lightly toned, minor foxing. Untrimmed. Biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, issued to coincide with his visit to the United..... More
[California: ca. 1947]. 21pp. typescript, together with maquette illustrated with eighteen photographs. Folio. Typescript stapled, minor soiling and toning. Maquette is large folio, original pictorial printed boards. Photographs pasted in, some loose. Light chipping and wear. A large maquette with original typescript designed as a book proposal for Will Lane's..... More
New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1867. 34pp. plus photographic frontispiece. Original black cloth, cover stamped gilt. Light wear to spine and corners, minor soiling. Internally clean. Memorial volume for Captain Edward Lines, who served with the Kansas Cavalry during the Civil War and was killed in action on September..... More
Mexico City: 1847. 20,[2]pp. Large folio. Original printed wrappers, bound in contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered in recent morocco, gilt leather spine label, all edges marbled. Numerous additional blank leaves bound in. Rubbing and scuffing to boards, moderate edge wear; wraps with repaired chips and tears. Early 20th-century bookplate..... More
Puebla: March 5, 1847. Broadside, 12.5 x 8.5 inches. Minor foxing and toning. An unrecorded broadside that prints the thanks and admonitions of the Governor of Puebla, Domingo Ibarra, following an attempted insurrection there in late February and March 1847 during the Mexican-American War. The uprising was a part of..... More
Puebla: March 17, 1847. Broadside, approximately 17 x 12.25 inches. Previously folded near lower and right edges to fit in a folio volume, with several small stab holes at left edge where previously bound. Some separation from left edge along lower fold line, and small area of loss at fold..... More
Puebla: March 12, 1847. Broadside, 12.75 x 8.5 inches. Minor soiling and wear. A rare broadside that prints the thanks and admonitions of the Governor of Puebla, Domingo Ibarra, following an attempted insurrection there in late February and March 1847 during the Mexican-American War. The uprising was a part of..... More
Mexico City: Tipografia de Vicente Garcia Torres, 1852. 36pp. Original printed wrappers. Old horizontal fold. Spine perishing, light wear at edges. Scarce account of this short-lived rebellion led by Juan Climaco Rebolledo in central Veracruz during the latter half of 1852. Rebolledo rose in opposition to President Mariano Arista, who..... More